Error message on unknown format binary

Jie Zhang jzhang918 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 08:40:27 UTC 2006


I'm using busybox 1.00-rc3. I don't know if the following is still
valid for busybox 1.2.2.1 release.

When I tried to run a binary with a format not supported by the linux
kernel or corrupted binary using msh of busybox as the shell, I got

root:~> ./t
t: applet not found

With bash, it looks like

$ ./t
bash: ./t: cannot execute binary file

The error message of busybox is a little confusing. Applet is not a
common concept for non-busybox developer. And binary filet was indeed
there, except in unknown format.

Should I report a bug tracking?

Thanks,
Jie



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